My second grader learned the F Word today

[Anonymous]

My three year old knows it and knows how to say it correctly in context 😅😅

[Anonymous]

There was a kids podcast about “bad words” and why they’re “bad” that was interesting. Maybe it was But Why?

[Anonymous]

It took this long? You never spilled a bag of rice on the floor in his presence or never were cut off on the road by some idiot? Wow!

Yes, I also taught my kid those words early. He knows they’re bad words and we don’t use them (unless it’s by accident!)

[Anonymous]

Two weeks ago my 5 yr old / kindergartener said, “what’s a fu**er?” I said, “just to make sure I heard you correctly, so I can give you an answer, can you tell me where you heard it?” She said, referring to her first-grade friend in aftercare, “Larla whispered it to me on the playground and told me it’s what she calls her brother.” 😂

I said “it’s a mean thing to call someone and so we don’t use that word in our house” and I haven’t heard about it since.

[Anonymous]

Pp here. My 10 yr old asked what it really meant…I told her “you know how the the sh word really means poop but that’s not how people use it? Well that word refers to a person who has sex, but it’s used as an insult.” She said “so Larla thinks her brother has sex? He’s in third grade!” And I said, “no, it’s just that that’s what it means literally.” She said something like “can we please not talk about this anymore!!”

[Anonymous]

Mother : Alright, where did you hear that word?

Ralphie as an Adult : [narrating] Now, I had heard that word at least ten times a day from my old man. He worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium; a master. But, I chickened out and said the first name that came to mind.

Ralphie : Schwartz!

[Anonymous]

When my son was in kindergarten at an Alexandria City public school he walked home from the bus stop with some kids in 5th or 6th grade. One day he said to me: What's a f***ing n**ger?

He had heard one kid call another that.

I took him out of that school.

He's an adult now and pretty much never uses profanity.

[Anonymous]

Use it as a teaching moment about bad words. If the classmate says it repeatedly then it might be worth talking to a classmate but otherwise I would leave it. Buckle up, kids hear all sorts of things at school!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Use it as a teaching moment about bad words. If the classmate says it repeatedly then it might be worth talking to a classmate but otherwise I would leave it. Buckle up, kids hear all sorts of things at school!

*teacher

[Anonymous]

My DD learned it in second grade from a F*ck Cancer bumper sticker

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When my son was in kindergarten at an Alexandria City public school he walked home from the bus stop with some kids in 5th or 6th grade. One day he said to me: What's a f***ing n**ger?

He had heard one kid call another that.

I took him out of that school.

He's an adult now and pretty much never uses profanity.

[Anonymous]

Your kids are going to learn so many things before you hope. F*** is just one. Years ago, parents used to be horrified when their early ES kids learned about 9-11 from classmates. Your kids’ friends have older siblings and families with different ways of communicating and different experiences that expose them to things at different rates and they share.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:His classmate taught it to him. Is this something I should bring up with the teacher?
My son keeps asking me why is it a bad word, what does it mean? I genuinely don’t know how to respond.

Ha! Lord, no! Are you serious?
But go ahead and try. I’m sure school administration will DROP everything because a kid learned a bad word in class.

Be a parent. Explain what it is and move on. Why are so many parents scared of teachable moments?

[Anonymous]

I’m surprised it took that long. My first grader calls it the “f word” and apologizes when she accidentally puts up her middle finger since it’s “saying the f word with your hands”

[Anonymous]

Mine learned it from Dick Cheney.